Re: CP stuff

[Joel Wendland <joelrw@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> If I remember correctly, the CP also supported state persecution of the
> Trotskyists during World War II, which set a precedent that hoisted them
> later (on their own petard).
>
> Jim Devine jdevine@xxxxxxx &   <http://myweb.lmu.edu/jdevine>
> http://myweb.lmu.edu/jdevine


This is a funny, but persistent misrepresentation. The CPUSA opposed the
violent overthrow (or any sort of overthrow, right?) of the US government
and did so throughout the McCarthy period -- something our vaunted
Trotskyists (before WWII in the particular case to which you refer) did not.
On principle, the CPUSA could not defend an organization that called for
violent revolution or overthrowing governments. The McCarthyite period was
not a petard of the Communists' making. It was class warfare.

Joel Wendland

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